At this stage, we are well into shooting, with over a dozen interviews already in the can. These include:

— the leading academic in the field of the paranormal, Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, who let us in to film in his Archives of the Impossible at Rice University and then invited us back for a conference that convened the leading academics in the field

— Representatives Adam Schiff, Andre Carson, and Tim Burchett, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

— Retired Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves, who had firsthand encounters with UFOs while stationed off the east coast in 2014 and 2015, then became the first active-duty pilot to testify about these sightings in front of Congress

— Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, who provided military videos of UFOs to the New York Times in 2017

— Whitley Strieber, whose bestselling book describing his horrifying and life-changing encounters with aliens, Communion, is the classic of the genre

 

— Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon whose near-death experience while in a coma made him into one of the best-known writers and thinkers on the subject of near- death experiences and the afterlife

— Occult historian Mitch Horowitz, one of the most respected scholars of parapsychology

— Boundary-pushing paranormal thinker and National Book Award finalist John Phillip Santos

— Physicist Russell Targ, who worked on the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency's Stargate Project, where he developed and tested remote-viewing techniques that were used in the field by the military and intelligence communities

— Leslie Kean, one of the top journalists covering both the government's involvement in UFOs and the scientific quest to explore the possibility of an afterlife